We don't accept models because they somehow correspond to a magical platonic "true" reality. We accept them because they predict observations to a reasonable degree of accuracy, with an acceptable parsimony of complexity.
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In his defense, it's enormously frustrating! But that's the entire thing: you learn how to re-evaluate even the most fixed ideas you have in light of new information or a new context.
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And yeah - you can probably get through life for the most part without ever really caring. There's a lot of stuff you never have to care about and can still live. It's one thing to say that X Y or Z is a waste of time but that doesn't disprove them.
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The apparent inconsistency between relativity and quantum physics - the lack of a single "way of knowing" that works at all scales for all things, a "Theory of Everything" - is famously the status quo in physics Sorry if you don't like it but science is not about your feelings
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quantum physics exists as a discipline because at that size the simple act of measuring a thing fucks with the results
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Niels Bohr FTW!
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